# FOLDERCONTENT slow to show **URL:** \ **Category:** Help & Support\ **Tags:** bug-report\ **Created:** [July 22, 2026, 6:39am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/foldercontent-slow-to-show/60067 "2026-07-22T06:39:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![galaxyhub](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/galaxyhub/32/42793_2.png) [@galaxyhub](https://resource.dopus.com/u/galaxyhub)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2026, 6:39am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/foldercontent-slow-to-show/60067/1 "2026-07-22T06:39:40Z")
Venerable ones. Has something been done recently to FOLDERCONTENT, my bigger menus are taking noticeably longer to open ? Even the smaller ones have some lag that was not there last week (maybe week before) ☹ EDIT: bigger = 100s of items taking 2-3 seconds ---
**Author:** ![lxp](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/lxp/32/33734_2.png) [@lxp](https://resource.dopus.com/u/lxp)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2026, 6:58am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/foldercontent-slow-to-show/60067/2 "2026-07-22T06:58:11Z")
I haven't noticed anything, but our setups very likely differ. ---
**Author:** ![Gianfranco](https://resource.dopus.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/4af34b/32.png) [@Gianfranco](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Gianfranco)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/foldercontent-slow-to-show/60067/3 "2026-07-22T12:23:26Z")
Hello, I have a folder with A LOT of directories (15530) and now I can't use anymore the left branch tree of folders (Folder structure) because simply seems like hang on. Circle circle circle until I desperate exit from Directory Opus. This happens with last version 13.24; so uninstalled and reinstalles the 13.23 version and the problem is still here. If I close the folder structure windows on the left side I can work well, this is the only workaround I found ---
**Author:** ![Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/leo/32/69732_2.png) [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2026, 1:32pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/foldercontent-slow-to-show/60067/4 "2026-07-22T13:32:19Z")
This thread is about Go FOLDERCONTENT buttons. If you have a problem with the folder tree, please start a separate thread for that. (Please also check how performance is in File Explorer first. If the problem isn't tied to a change in Opus then it may be an issue with how quickly your system can list the folders which could affect everything and not just Opus.) ---
**Author:** ![galaxyhub](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/galaxyhub/32/42793_2.png) [@galaxyhub](https://resource.dopus.com/u/galaxyhub)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 6:09pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/foldercontent-slow-to-show/60067/6 "2026-08-02T18:09:56Z")
Any news on this, my music library FOLDERCONTENT menu, which used to take about a second to show now takes about 15 seconds ☹ ---
**Author:** ![lxp](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/lxp/32/33734_2.png) [@lxp](https://resource.dopus.com/u/lxp)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 6:44pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/foldercontent-slow-to-show/60067/7 "2026-08-02T18:44:47Z")
Something is probably scanning the files, maybe a thumbnailer/iconmaker/antivirus? Folders with plain text files load as quickly as ever. My test setup: ```plaintext @set targetFolder=/downloads\60067 CreateFolder NAME="{$targetFolder}" READAUTO FileType NEW=.txt NEWCOUNT=10000 NEWNAME=":File %5c" PATH="{$targetFolder}" ``` and ```plaintext Go PATH=/downloads\60067 FOLDERCONTENT ``` A collection with 2000 mp3 files also opens without any delay: ```plaintext Go PATH=coll://music FOLDERCONTENT ``` ---
**Author:** ![galaxyhub](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/galaxyhub/32/42793_2.png) [@galaxyhub](https://resource.dopus.com/u/galaxyhub)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 7:24pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/foldercontent-slow-to-show/60067/8 "2026-08-02T19:24:56Z")
Thx, given me some motivation to run a few tests: running Directory Opus 13.24.7 (Beta) Build 9517 x64 OS 10.0 (B:26200 P:2 T:1) SP 0.0 i have restored some backups 20/7/2026 - 1 to 2 seconds 21/7/2026 - 15 to 20 seconds so it is not the directory opus version as that has been the same when restoring backups, it must be something to do with my config, either a setting or a script. how do I proceed from here ? EDIT: checked scripts - does not seem to be a script must be a setting - how do i diff settings please ? ---
**Author:** ![yonder](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/yonder/32/26886_2.png) [@yonder](https://resource.dopus.com/u/yonder)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 7:55pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/foldercontent-slow-to-show/60067/9 "2026-08-02T19:55:45Z")
Try 'Disable All Scripts' from the File menu in Script Management dialog If doing that gets rid of the delay then you need to do a process of elimination to determine what script. Depending on how many scripts you have installed, either toggling one by one and test for the delay OR disable half of them then based on the test results test the other half (or half of the half and so on) As for the configs you can use Beyond Compare or something similar to see what has changed in the config backups. Another thing you could test is the evaluator by disabling it temporarily with `Set EVALUATORDISABLE=toggle` ---
**Author:** ![galaxyhub](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/galaxyhub/32/42793_2.png) [@galaxyhub](https://resource.dopus.com/u/galaxyhub)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 9:15pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/foldercontent-slow-to-show/60067/10 "2026-08-02T21:15:02Z")
thx - it is not a script. will rollback and try and restore what settings have been changed/added in 13 days from memory, which for a Directory Opus addict is a lot of settings, mostly the new statusbar stuff.